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Salary levels in Thailand

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I've noticed that when you ask people in Southeast Asia about their salaries, they tend to inflate the numbers out of pride. For instance, they might base their answer on a month when they received a bonus or their highest-ever pay. (There are plenty of people like that in Korea too, haha)
The reality of actual monthly wages for common/general workers in Thailand
Actual highest income bracket (9,000 ~ 13,000 THB / approx. 350,000 ~ 500,000 KRW)
The majority of service and manual labor jobs—such as convenience store (7-Eleven) staff, shopping mall sales clerks, restaurant servers, and factory production workers—earn around the daily minimum wage (330~370 THB).
Even if they work all month without a single day off, the amount they take home is around 10,000 THB (approx. 400,000 KRW).
Entry-level jobs for general 4-year university graduates (12,000 ~ 15,000 THB / approx. 480,000 ~ 600,000 KRW)
If someone graduates from a provincial or general private university with a liberal arts degree (rather than a prestigious university like Chulalongkorn or Thammasat) and gets a local office job, there are countless cases where they earn less than 15,000 THB (approx. 600,000 KRW).
15,000 THB is merely the legal guideline for the starting salary of civil servants with a degree; in provincial areas or general SMEs, most places start from 12,000~13,000 THB.
Experienced general office workers (18,000 ~ 25,000 THB / approx. 700,000 ~ 1,000,000 KRW)
There are countless office workers who struggle to exceed a monthly salary of 20,000 THB even after working at a local company for over 5 to 10 years.
Even civil servants barely reach the 30,000 THB (approx. 1,200,000 KRW) mark only after 15 to 17 years of service.

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